Harry Warren

Harry Warren , born in Salvatore Antonio Guaragna (born December 24, 1893 in Brooklyn , New York , † September 22, 1981 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American musician , composer and songwriter .

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The Italian-American Harry Warren is one of the most successful songwriters for musicals and film scores; he wrote - partly with Al Dubin , Mort Dixon , Billy Rose , Mack Gordon , Leo Robin , Ira Gershwin ( Cheerful Little Earful ) and Johnny Mercer - countless hit songs. Among the best known are Lulu's Back in Town , made famous by Fats Waller and, in the 1950s, mainly by Mel Tormé , his composition " Chattanooga Choo Choo " (1941), which was his first great success, and by the Glenn Miller Orchestra became popular, as did (I've Got a Gal in) Kalamazoo (1942). Other hits were There Will Never Be Another You , I Only Have Eyes for You, 42nd Street, The Gold Diggers' Song (We're in the Money) , Young and Healthy, Lullaby of Broadway , Serenade in Blue, At Last , Jeepers Creepers and You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me .

Warren won the Oscar for Best Song for Lullaby of Broadway (with Al Dubin, 1935), You'll Never Know (with Mack Gordon, 1943) and for On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe (with Johnny Mercer, 1946) . Warren also composed the Broadway - Musical Shangri-La (1956).

Tony Thomas : Harry Warren and the Hollywood Musical . Preface by Bing Crosby . Citadel Press, Secaucus (NJ) 1975, 344 pp., ISBN 0-80650468-4
Ken Bloom: The American Songbook - The Singers, the Songwriters, and the Songs . New York City, Black Dog & Leventhal, 2005 ISBN 1-57912-448-8 )

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SURNAME	Warren, Harry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Guaragna, Salvatore Antonio (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American musician, composer and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH	December 24, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH	Brooklyn , New York
DATE OF DEATH	September 22, 1981
Place of death	Los Angeles , California